Bowie portrayed physicist Nikola Tesla in the Christopher Nolan film, The Prestige ( 2006 ), which was about the bitter rivalry between two magicians in the late 19th century.

* David Bowie portrayed Pilate in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ), based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis.

He portrayed Sam Houston in several episodes of The Adventures of Jim Bowie.

Comparing David Bowie's portrayal of Warhol to others who've portrayed Warhol before this film, Paul Morrissey ( who directed many movies that Warhol produced ) said " Bowie was the best by far.

In 1955, he also portrayed legendary frontiersman Jim Bowie on ABC's Davy Crockett, a Walt Disney Production starring Fess Parker in the title role.

Opening in medias res as the news staff of The Weekly Islander pays for lunch at a restaurant, editor Dave Bowie and founder Vince Teague test young intern Stephanie McCann's powers of deduction regarding their tipping procedure.

With British bartender, Monte ( Bowie ), and her roommate Vivian, she arranges a heist of the restaurant.

It also includes location footage with Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe ( a MainMan employee and a friend of David and Angie Bowie ) shot in San Francisco outside the famous Mars Hotel, with Fox posing provocatively in the street while Bowie lounges against the wall, smoking.

Daly grew up in Bowie, Maryland and Gaithersburg, Maryland ; his father was a federal employee and consultant, and his mother an accountant.

Many of Kitano's routines involved him portraying a gangster or other harsh character, and his first major film role, in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ( where he starred opposite Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie ), featured him cast as a tough ( but sympathetic ) POW camp sergeant during World War II.

Donnelly returned to Broadway a number of times, replacing Albert Finney in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in 1968, playing Milo Tindle in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth and appearing as Frederick Treves opposite David Bowie as The Elephant Man.

After the dunk, Bowie raced to the opposite end of the floor to apologize to Collins, but he was incredibly irate and wouldn't have any of it, and the Pistons rushed to the locker room.

The Linguini Incident is a 1991 American comedic film set in New York starring David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette.

1991 The Linguini Incident ( with David Bowie and Iman )

Tyler McVey appeared from 1958 to 1961 in different roles in three episodes (" Dynamite Blows Two Ways ", " Incident at Fort Bowie ", and " Dead Man's Claim ").

* Environ Days-John Fischer ( with Lester Bowie, Perry Robinson, Charles Tyler, Marion Brown, Arthur Blythe & Phillip Wilson ) ( recorded 1970's, Released 1991 )

* Huffstodt, Jim, Hard Dying Men: the story of General W. H. L. Wallace, General T. E. G. Ransom, and their ' Old Eleventh ' Illinois Infantry in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), Heritage Press, Bowie, MD, 1991.

In late 1991 Bowie reiterated that he was still happy being in the band during that time, stating " I'm content.

Blush came from a band called August Red, who were active around 1991 and consisted of Tim Thiel, Brian Spector, Brian Blush, Zowie Bowie, and Michael Gatt.

David Robert Jones ( born 8 January 1947 ), known by his stage name David Bowie ( ), is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

Despite his by now well established superstardom, Bowie, in the words of biographer Christopher Sandford, " for all his record sales ( over a million copies of Ziggy Stardust alone ), existed essentially on loose change.

Echoing Lows minimalist, instrumental approach, the second of the trilogy, " Heroes " ( 1977 ), incorporated pop and rock to a greater extent, seeing Bowie joined by guitarist Robert Fripp.

The final piece in what Bowie called his " triptych ", Lodger ( 1979 ), eschewed the minimalist, ambient nature of the other two, making a partial return to the drum-and guitar-based rock and pop of his pre-Berlin era.

Tonight ( 1984 ), another dance-oriented album, found Bowie collaborating with Tina Turner and, once again, Iggy Pop.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Bowie explored new directions on The Buddha of Suburbia ( 1993 ), a soundtrack album of incidental music composed for the TV series adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novel.

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

Bowie starred in The Hunger ( 1983 ), a revisionist vampire film, with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon.

* " Underground " ( song ), by David Bowie, featured in the film Labyrinth

* Micah Bowie ( born 1974 ), American baseball player

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

The second half of the concert featured the three remaining Queen members-John Deacon ( on bass ), Brian May ( on guitar ) and Roger Taylor ( on drums )-along with guest singers and guitarists, including Elton John, Roger Daltrey ( of The Who ), Tony Iommi ( of Black Sabbath ), David Bowie, Mick Ronson ( of Spiders from Mars ), James Hetfield ( of Metallica ), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant ( of Led Zeppelin ), Joe Elliott and Phil Collen ( of Def Leppard ), Axl Rose and Slash ( of Guns N ' Roses ), Liza Minnelli, and others.

From Bowie Station, Arizona, they were entrained, along with most of the other remaining Chiricahua ( as well as the Army's Apache scouts ), and exiled to Fort Marion, Florida.

The organization is run by the mysterious leader known only as " The Sovereign ", who is revealed to be real-life rock star David Bowie in episode 26.

The following day at FBI headquarters in Philadelphia, long-lost Agent Phillip Jeffries ( David Bowie ) re-appears.

In a letter to Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Flood demanded that the commissioner declare him a free agent:

Phantom Limb ( voiced by James Urbaniak ) is a ruthless killer, villain insurance agent, and high-ranking Guild member ( or was until he tried to usurp David Bowie as the Sovereign ).

* David Bowie as Phillip Jeffries

* Duet ( Lester Bowie and Phillip Wilson album ), 1978

Weill's score uses a number of styles, including rag-time, jazz and formal counterpoint, notably in the " Alabama Song " ( covered by multiple artists, notably The Doors and David Bowie ).

From the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics.

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

Amos also featured her use of the clavinet on her 2004 recording " Not David Bowie ", released as part of her 2006 box set, A Piano: The Collection.

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947.

Released six weeks later, his album debut, David Bowie, an amalgam of pop, psychedelia, and music hall, met the same fate.

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour

With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".

Pin Ups, a collection of covers of his 1960s favourites, followed in October, producing a UK number three hit in " Sorrow " and itself peaking at number one, making David Bowie the best-selling act of 1973 in the UK.

He later commented that the accompanying live album, David Live, ought to have been titled " David Bowie Is Alive and Well and Living Only In Theory ".

Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal.

* David Bowie ( 1967 )

Devo caught the attention of David Bowie and Iggy Pop, who championed the band and enabled Devo to secure a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records.

Previous guest designers include Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Marjane Satrapi, Guillermo del Toro, David Bowie, David Byrne, and Dennis Hopper.

The interconnection between horror and goth was highlighted in its early days by The Hunger, a 1983 vampire film, which starred David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon.

* David Bowie, singer / songwriter